People ex rel. Stansbury v. Mayor of Danville

This an original proceeding in this court for a mandamus. The relator, Samuel Stansbury, a voter and tax-payer in the city of Danville, represents by his petition, that for more than fifteen years, Danville has been and is incorporated as a city, under and by virtue of the General Incorporation Law of 1872; that prior to the year 1890 the city was composed of five wards, and had ten aldermen; that during the early part of that year or the latter part of the year 1889, certain territory was annexed to the city, and a census of the city being taken, as provided by statute, it was found that the…